CITY OF BOSTON. OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, TO THE HONORABLE THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF Agreeably to the Ordinance, the Board of Directors for Public Institutions herewith present their Fifteenth Annual Report for the year ending April 30th, 1872. The various tabular statistics submitted, exhibit in detail the expenditures and income of the several institutions for the financial year 1871-2, together with comparisons of the seam with that of the previous year, and statements of the number of inmates, and cost of maintaining each. The expenditures for the year have been as follows, viz. : |